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laudanum

American  
[lawd-n-uhm, lawd-nuhm] / ˈlɔd n əm, ˈlɔd nəm /

noun

  1. a tincture of opium.

  2. Obsolete. any preparation in which opium is the chief ingredient.

laudanum British  
/ ˈlɔːdənəm /

noun

  1. a tincture of opium

  2. (formerly) any medicine of which opium was the main ingredient

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Etymology

Origin of laudanum

1595–1605; originally Medieval Latin variant of ladanum; arbitrarily used by Paracelsus to name a remedy based on opium

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He would be a better Chymist who should poison intentionally, than he on whose mind the prevailing impression was that "Epsom Salts mean Oxalic Acid, and Syrup of Senna Laudanum."

From Ethics by Aristotle

Others for the same Intention mix with this Oil the Powder of Millepedes, Sugar of Lead, Pompholix, and a little Laudanum.

From The Natural History of Chocolate Being a Distinct and Particular Account of the Cocoa-Tree, its Growth and Culture, and the Preparation, Excellent Properties, and Medicinal Vertues of its Fruit by Brookes, R. (Richard), fl. 1721-1763

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